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- Developed and implemented product line strategic plans, including market and competitive analysis for the Poly Chain and synchronous metals product lines; full product line worth $211M in 2020.- Managed rapid growth of product line by >50% in 2021 by connecting multiple cross-functional teams to ensure raw material procurement, manufacturability, and.

Greater Denver Area

• Independently lead and executed a new product development project from initiation through completion. Project is valued at $100M.
• Lead a cross functional project team including marketing, engineering, procurement, and process engineering.
• Develop and implement project charters and metrics, obtain stakeholder alignment, identify project risks and develop risk mitigation plans, resolve conflicts.
• Prepare and present project updates and review-gate proposals to multiple levels of upper management.
• Utilize business knowledge and technical skills to effectively assess risk, develop contingencies and determine when to elevate issues.
• Collaborate with process engineers and engineering managers to coordinate efforts and define and leverage best practices.

Boulder, CO

• Project Manager 2015 – Current
• Represent technical communications department at NPD core team meetings and lead labeling development, implementation, and inspection processes.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestone, and maintain communication with project stakeholders about progress on milestones, deliverable and manage expectations.
• Assemble and coordinate multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Develop project plan, define project scope, objectives, resources, and deliverables.
• Monitor quality assurance measures

• Managed two districts with revenue totaling 6 million dollars and was project manager on all new product development, testing, and evaluation in a fast paced, quick turnaround market.
• Evaluated current market needs and determine applications where current designs were below average and prioritize where design resources should be utilized.
• Quantified objectives of new design and prepared documentation to show weaknesses of current product to provide ideas on addressing weaknesses
• Coordinated field tests with city salesmen, clients and field sales and created engineering documentation on test product and testing specifications for personal reference and customer reports.
• Compiled final evaluation of all tested product and decided the success or failure and whether to standardize or obsolete.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Partnered with Assistant Superintendent to conduct the QA/QC inspection, reviewing above ceiling MEP routing's, insulation, valves, etc. and inspecting wall penetrations, etc., and documenting the inspection in field..
• Designed a layout of an outside AHU curb over an existing building roof with the use of CAD to develop and then used for checking accuracy.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Maintained spreadsheets to calculate bridge load ratings using MS Excel.
• Conducted in field observations and recorded data and measurements.